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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:00:33 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Hardwatch: Week of March 2nd, 2015http://nerdist.com/hardwatch-week-of-march-2nd-2015/
http://nerdist.com/hardwatch-week-of-march-2nd-2015/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 03:00:41 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=229096It’s still winter. As a result, we’re encouraging you to stay inside where it’s warm and safe. (Yes I know that a lot of people don’t live in places where it snows and is frigid for months, but those of us who do are a little traumatized at this point in the winter.) But don’t worry, there are plenty of great things on TV and a lot of them feature Chris Hardwick! Here’s where you can find him this week.

Now that you have a whole list of things to keep you out of the cold this week, go follow Chris on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr so you know all the things that pop up in his day-to-day. We’ll be back next week with another round up of the places you can see him.

]]>http://nerdist.com/hardwatch-week-of-march-2nd-2015/feed/2Chris Hardwick To Present FLETCH at Wayne Federman International Film Festivalhttp://nerdist.com/chris-hardwick-to-present-fletch-at-wayne-federman-international-film-festival/
http://nerdist.com/chris-hardwick-to-present-fletch-at-wayne-federman-international-film-festival/#commentsSun, 01 Mar 2015 22:15:38 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=229090Oh you lucky LA’ers! The 4th Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival is coming to town, and the presenters list is downright nerdy and great! Our own fearless leader will be presenting one of my favorite classic comedies to the lucky audience, and if you’re in town, you can also catch it!

The festival is the brainchild of the titular Wayne Federman who came to the fine folks at Cinefamily a few years back and proposed a festival of films chosen and presented by stand-up comedians who found the films that were chosen inspirational and influential. It was exciting then to read that Chris Hardwick will be presenting the classic Chevy Chase film Fletch at this year’s festival. If you haven’t seen Fletch, you should definitely find it and watch it right now. Chase plays a chameleon of an investigative reporter. Do you need anymore incentive than chameleon and reporter? It’s great. Go. Watch.

If you live in LA, you can get tickets for any of these films at Cinefamily.org. I’m kind of jealous (again) that I’m stuck in the snow and can’t go see a few of these myself. And when you’re all inspired by all the funny people you get to enjoy, think of other comedians and films you’d like to see the festival feature and come back and tell us about them in the comments below.

Images via Cinefamily.org

]]>http://nerdist.com/chris-hardwick-to-present-fletch-at-wayne-federman-international-film-festival/feed/1This Week On the Nerdist Podcast Network: Prof. Brian Cox and Eric Idle, ALWAYS SUNNY, ARCHER, and more…http://nerdist.com/this-week-on-the-nerdist-podcast-network-prof-brian-cox-and-eric-idle-always-sunny-archer-and-more/
http://nerdist.com/this-week-on-the-nerdist-podcast-network-prof-brian-cox-and-eric-idle-always-sunny-archer-and-more/#commentsFri, 27 Feb 2015 21:00:20 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=228717This week, the Nerdist Podcast Network had the smart and funny Prof. Brian Cox and Eric Idle, the smart and funny Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton (Mac and Dennis, of course, on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the producers of the smart (and goofy) and funny Archer, our own smart and funny Indoor Kid Emily V. Gordon doubling up appearances, and the smart and funny guys behind MOCKpocalypse. And more smart and funny people. The great weeks are just piling up here. This was the week that was:

(NOTE: The following one, as is our Friday custom, may or may not be ready by the time this posts, but if it isn’t, it’s coming any minute now. And by “any minute,” I mean any randomly selected minute. Hey, we eventually delivered Sleater-Kinney, didn’t we?) Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, they of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, appeared on the Nerdist Podcast to promote the show and the movie they’ve produced (All the Wilderness), and if you, like me, are a fan of Always Sunny, you have to listen to this one — they go into depth about the show, the idea of focusing on character rather than premise, the unusual development process, the addition of Danny DeVito, how marriage and family have changed life for them, the future of the show, and caffeine and other vices. Caffeine’s a vice?

There are few writers’ rooms you’d want to get into more than the one for Archer, and on this week’s Nerdist Writers Panel, producers Matt Thompson and Casey Willis talked about how the show is produced and what’s coming up. Yes, they do talk about that Archer Vice season, which they say was always designed as a one-season thing. They also talk about working with creator/writer Adam Reed for over 12 years, how and why the show has changed and improved over the years, and their work on Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo. And Carrot Top.

Neil Garguilo and Dave Park of AXS TV’s MOCKpocalypsedropped by Chewin’ It to visit Kevin and Steve and talk about their new movie Bloodsucking Bastards (not a rom-com). Bad tattoos, Pitbull, bikers, more tattoos, and Slamdance are on the agenda.

Gillian Anderson talked all about The X-Files on the Nerdist Podcast, and it was epic. She discussed the difficulty of learning medical jargon to play Dana Scully, the pregnancy that altered the series’ path, and, finally, the hunger for more X-Files that led to Chris and Matt proposing a hashtag to get the word out that we need more Mulder and Scully: #xfiles2015. Post it everywhere.

Ethan Hawke did the Nerdist Podcast, too, and on that episode,you’ll hear Ethan discuss Boyhood, his new movie Predestination, genre movies, Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams, and how life looks different for he and Chris now that they’re in their 40s. And If you don’t know Simon Amstell, you will. The British comedian and TV personality (Never Mind the Buzzcocks) visited the Nerdist Podcast as he prepares for his upcoming U.S. tour.

If you ever wondered what it would be like if Pete Holmes interviewed Henry Rollins on You Made It Weird, well, this week, you got your answer. And it was what you’d expect, a deep discussion of things like workaholism, why he performs, family, traveling to dangerous places, charity, and laughing in the fave of death. It’s another must-listen for Rollins fans or anyone looking to hear a couple of smart guys ruminate about life.

John Hodgman interviewing Patton Oswalt on Nerdist Writers Panel? Yup. Patton’s promoting his new book “Silver Screen Fiend,” so the talk naturally goes to movies, addressing Patton’s obsession with the medium, what he’d like to see with future Spider-Man flicks, movies that he hates and why, and a particularly odd encounter with Robert De Niro.

TWO Sex Nerd Sandra episodes? Yes, we had ‘em. First, K.J. Middlebrooks talked polyamory, in case you’re into multiples, and then our own Terrified host Dave Ross returned to the scene of his former co-hosting crimes to air things out. Meanwhile, Rhea Butcher visited The Indoor Kids, and the comedian joined Emily and Kumail to discuss the mysterious appeal of flight simulators, games of the ’90s, and which games they’d pick if they could only play one game for the rest of their lives.

]]>http://nerdist.com/this-week-on-the-nerdist-podcast-network-gillian-anderson-ethan-hawke-henry-rollins-patton-oswalt-and-more/feed/0Dining with Doug and Karen #44: Steve Agee and Megan Neuringer at Cinefamilyhttp://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-44-steve-agee-and-megan-neuringer-at-cinefamily/
http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-44-steve-agee-and-megan-neuringer-at-cinefamily/#commentsMon, 12 Jan 2015 13:30:17 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?post_type=pepisode&p=216499Steve Agee and Megan Neuringer join Doug and Karen at Cinefamily to enjoy some sweet and savory treats from the crowd!
]]>http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-44-steve-agee-and-megan-neuringer-at-cinefamily/feed/0Schlock & Awe: THE TINGLERhttp://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-tingler/
http://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-tingler/#commentsWed, 29 Oct 2014 23:30:09 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=196133It’s hard to imagine now, with home viewing at its peak, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime hooked up to big hi-def televisions, but there was a time when going to the movie theater actually was an experience you couldn’t get anywhere else. Everybody went to the movies back in the proverbial “day” and much like today producers moguls tried to ensure the masses would see their picture over any others. There was added spectacle to the filmgoing beyond just going to a film. The analog today would be IMAX or 3D, things which can’t truly be replicated at home. In the 1950s, one of these showmen filmmakers would make going to the cinema an event and seeing his horror pictures was something you couldn’t get anywhere else. That man was William Castle and arguably his most huckstery film was just screened at L.A.’s Cinefamily in as close to the way Castle mandated it be shown at the time. I’d never seen The Tingler before, but I don’t think seeing it in any other fashion would be worth it at all.

Oh, what a trailer. Anyone who’s seen Joe Dante’s fabulous send-up Matinee well recognize the William Castle type of filmmaker. He brought people to the movies by involving them in his horror films as much as possible, making the theaters interactive and the experience singular. For The Tingler, Caslte invented a process called “Percepto,” which was meant to allow certain members of the audience to physically feel what the characters on the screen were feeling, specifically the twinge of unbridled fright. In actuality, Percepto was just a series of large joy buzzers affixed to the bottom of some of the theater seats that would zap at the designated part of the film. And they didn’t all buzz at once; the Percepto seats would each buzz in a seemingly random sequence as the particular section commenced.

At the beginning of the film, Castle himself, much like in the above trailer, stepped onto the screen to tell the audience that there is one particular way to keep from dying of fright (something he would often attest to happening at his films) was to scream as loudly as possible. That, he says, is the only way to make sure you’re not a victim of “The Tingler,” which at that point we lack any sense of what it could be. When he leaves the screen, we get several black frames to bring the theater into perfect darkness, and that’s when the Percepto seats begin to buzz while shrieks of horror blast out of the speakers and images of disembodied heads looking horrified begin to scream at us. This is to encourage the audience to scream as well. It’s sufficiently effective and Castle knew it, which is why the Percepto seats, which felt like little more than someone’s phone vibrating slightly more fervently than usual, aren’t used again until the final act of the movie.

The storyline of the movie is completely absurd and exists only to play in tandem with Percepto. Vincent Price plays Dr. Warren Chapin, a pathologist who conducts autopsies on prisoners after being executed by electric chair. Evidently, that’s the law, to have an autopsy done on the body of the executed. Who knew? He’s about to do an autopsy on the latest victim when a man comes in saying he’s the condemned man’s brother-in-law and could he stay and watch the autopsy. This man is Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge) and he’s a huge weirdo. During the autopsy, Chapin sees that the executed man’s spine has been shattered. He has a theory that it’s not the electricity that does it, but fear itself. The fear of being executed causes something to stir in the spine (“Everyone knows fear is derived from the spinal cord.” Oh do we?!?) and it’s so strong that it shatters. Chapin has taken to calling this… The Tingler, and the only way to release the tension is to scream.

Ollie is co-owner of a silent movie theater along with his deaf mute wife Martha (Judith Evelyn). Ollie invites Chapin over for some coffee as a repayment for the ride home and Chapin accidentally cuts his hand. Martha is petrified of blood and passes out. Chapin believes this was not regular fainting, but a psychosomatic escape caused by fear. Chapin returns to his home, a huge house paid for by his philandering wife. Chapin gets along great with her pretty and kind sister, though, and his lab assistant is dating her. But Chapin hates his wife and the best scene in the film involves him threatening her with a gun, then firing the gun, the audience believing she’s dead but then we find out she’s just passed out from fear and he x-rays her back to get a look at The Tingler, which looks sort of like a giant centipede on the spine.

Chapin decides he wants to attempt to make himself afraid to record what the Tingler does, but he fears nothing. So he SHOOTS LSD INTO HIS VEINS in order to make him hallucinate horrifying things. This is the first instance on film of LSD being used, fun fact. But, this doesn’t work exactly how he hopes because, try as he might, he can’t help but scream. The only kind of person who wouldn’t scream for sure is a deaf mute…waaaaaaait! Apparently, Martha Higgins has been unable to sleep and Ollie calls Chapin to help. He comes over and gives her a shot of something and tells Ollie she’ll be out for a few hours. But she doesn’t sleep that long and when she wakes up, she sees horrible things, like a monster person. She goes into the bathroom and the bathtub is full of blood (in color!) and eventually she dies of fright.

Ollie takes her dead body over to Chapin’s and he performs and autopsy after her body sits straight up and then goes back down. Chapin removes from her spine the Tingler, which is at this point over a foot long. Chapin decides to keep it in a box while Ollie takes his dead wife home, which again is super weird. Chapin’s shrew of a wife decides to get revenge on Chapin by knocking her husband out and sicking the Tingler on him. He very nearly dies until the sister comes in, screaming, and thus incapacitating the Tingler. Chapin decides to return the Tingler to Ollie’s wife’s spine to hopefully make it die, but when he arrives he finds out that Ollie is actually the one who scared his wife to death in order to get at her money.

The Tingler, meanwhile, escapes and goes down the vent into the silent movie theater below, which brings us to the best and most hokey section of the film. The Tingler begins to crawl around the theater while people watch some old silent film. At a certain point, a girl in the movie stands up and screams and this is accompanied by the lights in the theater I was in turning on and a person screaming so that a woman dressed up like a nurse could come out and attend to her while Vincent Price tells us all to be calm. Then, later, Vincent Price turns the lights off on the movie and then everybody’s seat begins to vibrate intermittently for a good couple of minutes while everybody screamed and laughed. The lights eventually come back on, Percepto stops, and the movie commences, but it’s never as good again, and really it just needs to wrap up.

The Tingler is a movie that was made entirely to house a gimmick and for that reason, watching it on DVD wouldn’t do it justice at all. It’s like watching those old 3-D films on your regular 2-D TV. Stuff just pokes toward the screen without anything actually happening. You lose a lot of the whole point of the film. The Tingler is also, aside from the gimmicks, so full of insane lines and notions that watching it by yourself would not nearly be as fun. Vincent Price is typically great and as always commits himself fully to the proceedings, even if it’s utterly absurd. That’s what made him such a star.

If you get a chance to see The Tingler at a theater in Percepto, I would highly, highly recommend going. Otherwise, go watch House on Haunted Hill instead.

]]>http://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-tingler/feed/1A Second Look: Werner Herzog’s NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHThttp://nerdist.com/a-second-look-werner-herzogs-nosferatu-phantom-der-nacht/
http://nerdist.com/a-second-look-werner-herzogs-nosferatu-phantom-der-nacht/#commentsTue, 20 May 2014 20:30:41 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=150083Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu The Vampyre pays homage to one of the “grandfathers” of German cinema, F.W. Murnau and his 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Herzog’s tribute film has just been released on Blu-ray (you can read Kyle Anderson’s review of the film here) and alongside the English language film is an alternate German language version.

In exchange for financing some of the film, 20th Century Fox requested the film be shot in English so Herzog filmed dialogue scenes twice in order to avoid dubbing. Both male leads, Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz, were native German speakers and the German language film is considered by most to be the definitive version.

I had the pleasure of screening a 35mm print of Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht on the big screen at The Cinefamily here in Los Angeles as part of 35th anniversary tribute. I have to say, this experience was much different than when I had previously tried to watch the film a few years ago. It goes without saying that anytime an actor has to speak in a different language something will be lost in translation and it’s very clear that both Kinski and Ganz are more comfortable working in their native tongues. While I believe both versions of the film to be a bit uneven, when the movie works it works so very well.

Some of the imagery is still breathtaking and the score by German group Popol Vuh is ominous and haunting in every way. While the moments that are faithful recreations of the Murnau film are fun for any horror fan to see, the unique scenes that Herzog brings to his version, specifically the opening shots of the mummies and the sequences in the town when everyone knows they are going to die from the plague, are without question my favorites. For fans of foreign film, horror or cinema in general, I would absolutely recommend screening Herzog’s Nosferatu in German and now, thanks to Shout Factory, you can on Blu-ray.

]]>http://nerdist.com/a-second-look-werner-herzogs-nosferatu-phantom-der-nacht/feed/0Comedians Introduce Classics at the 3rd Annual Wayne Federman Film Festivalhttp://nerdist.com/comedians-introduce-classics-at-the-3rd-annual-wayne-federman-film-festival/
http://nerdist.com/comedians-introduce-classics-at-the-3rd-annual-wayne-federman-film-festival/#commentsTue, 29 Apr 2014 02:00:22 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=137768Wayne Federman isn’t only a funny guy, he also likes him some movies, so much so that he started his own international film festival, wherein he and friends of his pick movies they love, screen them at Cinefamily in Los Angeles, and talk about them. It’s something we’d all like to do, surely, but Mr. Federman, who wrote for Jimmy Fallon and played himself on The X-Files, has actually made it so. Now in its third year, The Wayne Federman International Film Festival will again be showing six films presented by six different comedians over the course of four days.

A pretty eclectic mix, we think you’ll agree. If you’d like to see any of these films and enjoy some classic movie talk, head to Cinefamily.org before all the tickets disappear like Dirk Diggler’s dreams or Lloyd Bridges having given up sniffing glue.

]]>http://nerdist.com/comedians-introduce-classics-at-the-3rd-annual-wayne-federman-film-festival/feed/0Dining with Doug and Karen #35: Cinefamily Potluck with Jonah Rayhttp://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-35-cinefamily-potluck-with-jonah-ray/
http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-35-cinefamily-potluck-with-jonah-ray/#commentsMon, 13 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=105300Doug and Karen are back at the Cinefamily patio! This time Jonah Ray joins them for some delicious foods from the guests before they watch Doug interrupt the Golden Globes!

]]>http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-35-cinefamily-potluck-with-jonah-ray/feed/3Dining with Doug and Karen #28: Tom Lennon, James Adomian and Desserts at Cinefamilyhttp://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-28-tom-lennon-james-adomian-and-desserts-at-cinefamily/
http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-28-tom-lennon-james-adomian-and-desserts-at-cinefamily/#commentsSat, 07 Sep 2013 22:00:40 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=88745It’s another Dining with Doug and Karen from Cinefamily! Tom Lennon and James Adomian join Doug and Karen to try an array of desserts from the potluck!
]]>http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-28-tom-lennon-james-adomian-and-desserts-at-cinefamily/feed/5L.A.: Come See a Free Screening of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s DON JON (UPDATE: All Booked Up)http://nerdist.com/l-a-come-see-a-free-screening-of-joseph-gordon-levitts-don-jon/
http://nerdist.com/l-a-come-see-a-free-screening-of-joseph-gordon-levitts-don-jon/#commentsFri, 06 Sep 2013 15:00:32 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=88658

(UPDATE: The screening is all booked up. Man, that was quick. Thanks- hope you made it in!)

You’ve seen him cheer on celestial beings in the outfield. You’ve seen him have his heart broken by Zooey “500 Days of Summer” Deschanel. You’ve seen him kill Bruce Willis in the future. You’ve heard him on the Nerdist Podcast. And now you can see Joseph Gordon-Levitt make his directorial debut in Don Jon, a film which he also wrote and in which he stars alongside Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Brie Larson, and more. JGL plays Don Jon, a modern day Don Juan and meathead who suffers from a crippling porn addiction and a deep, resounding sense of emptiness in his life. A pitch-black comedy tinged with moments of genuine honesty, Don Jon finds Gordon-Levitt taking on the role of a gym rat Jersey Shore-style meathead and digging deeper than the spray-tanned exterior.

And now, if you’re in the Los Angeles area, you can see it absolutely free on Tuesday, September 10th at the Cinefamily Silent Movie Theater at 7:30PM, hosted by yours truly. That’s right – come join me at Cinefamily for a free screening of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon. (UPDATE AGAIN: All booked. Thanks!)

]]>http://nerdist.com/dining-with-doug-and-karen-27-paul-f-tompkins-louis-leterrier-rory-scovel-and-junk/feed/7Reminder: HarmonQuest Screens “Zero Charisma” — Saturday at L.A.’s Cinefamilyhttp://nerdist.com/reminder-harmonquest-screens-zero-charisma-saturday-at-l-a-s-cinefamily/
http://nerdist.com/reminder-harmonquest-screens-zero-charisma-saturday-at-l-a-s-cinefamily/#commentsFri, 09 Aug 2013 23:10:26 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=85778We told you a couple of weeks ago about HarmonQuest the month-long celebration at Los Angeles’ Cinefamily of all things fantasy, including live role-playing games and appropriate movies, with some comedy friends joining the Community creator along the way. Here’s a little reminder that Saturday afternoon at 4 pm (PT), you’ll find a gaming session featuring Dan with Chris Hardwick followed by the L.A. premiere of Nerdist Industries’ feature film Zero Charisma, a comedy about RPGs, belonging, and true vs. faux nerdism, with an introduction by Hardwick. Tickets are $14, and it’s free for Cinefamily members.

Dan Harmon has solidified himself as a god among geeks. From the various parodies on Community, he’s shown us that he’s no stranger to the stuff we all love. He’s also a huge fan of fantasy gaming, evidenced by the D&D episode, as well as every single week on his Harmontown Podcast. Now, he’s letting everybody share in his love of these games and movies with a month-long takeover of Los Angeles’ Cinefamily with HarmonQuest, co-presented by Nerdist Industries and Starburns Industries.

Dan can’t do this alone, so he’s recruited a Fellowship of friends, like Patton Oswalt, Chris Hardwick, Blake Anderson, Rob Schrab, and Phil Tippett, to help him bridge the chasm of Film and Fantasy. At each of the eight separate events, Harmon will host live role-playing game sessions followed by a sword-and-sorcery movie of his choosing. This will also be your first opportunity to see Zero Charisma, the Dungeons & Dragons movie, which is the first film to be distributed by Nerdist Industries and Tribeca Films.

Here’s the line-up:

(8/1) 8:00pm – An Evening with Phil Tippett. Rob Schrab hosts a Q&A with the legendary effects man followed by a newly remastered print of the 1981 film Dragonslayer, for which Tippett was nominated for an Oscar.

(8/10) 9:00pm – HarmonQuest Live with guest Patton Oswalt and a screening of John Boorman’s Excalibur.

(8/17) 2:00pm – HarmonQuest Live: Everything is Festival Edition

How’s that for a 12-sided die of fun? Cinefamily is located at Location: The Cinefamily, 611 N. Fairfax, West Hollywood, CA 90036 and tickets are $12-14 general admission or free for Cinefamily members. Head to Cinefamily’s website for more information.

You know you’re going to have fun, so come on out!

]]>http://nerdist.com/in-august-join-the-harmonquest/feed/0Go: Joel Hodgson at Cinefamily L.A. 12/7-8http://nerdist.com/go-joel-hodgson-at-cinefamily-l-a-127-8/
http://nerdist.com/go-joel-hodgson-at-cinefamily-l-a-127-8/#commentsFri, 30 Nov 2012 20:30:13 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=61400Joel Hodgson is coming back to Los Angeles for two shows at Cinefamily on December 7th and 8th.

I know that some of you are already clicking on this link to buy tickets, but if you need more convincing, here’s what’s happening: Joel will be doing his one-man show Riffing Myself, in which he talks about the origins of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and his other shows and pilots and everything else about his singular and amazing career. And then, because it’s the holiday season and he’s in a giving mood, he’ll screen the MST3K version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, in which the status of child labor laws on Mars comes into question and multiple Santas are in play.

Yeah, see? It’s going to be a great evening, and if you’re in the L.A. area, you will want to be there next Friday, December 7th and Saturday, December 8th. Okay, NOW you can click on this link to buy tickets. Cinefamily is at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax just south of Melrose and north of Canter’s, which you know if you live here. If you’re a MST3K fan, AND YOU ARE, you really need to be there.

If you’re in the L.A. area, our pal Jonah Ray is bringing to our attention something going on this weekend that might be relevant, as we say, to your interests. Oh, of COURSE it’s relevant to your interests. It’s Cinematic Titanic — Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, J. Elvis Weinstein, and Mary Jo Pehl from Mystery Science Theater 3000, of course — laying waste to a Ted V. Mikels “classic,” The Doll Squad, live in person as part of Cinefamily’s “Everything is Festival III: The Domination,” the alt-comedy and found footage celebration of strangeness which kicks off Saturday night.

Yeah, see? You’re already asking where, when, and how much. I knew it. Slow down and I’ll tell you everything you need to know.

The crew will be eviscerating the movie (which allegedly inspired Charlie’s Angels, influenced a scene in Kill Bill, and involves rats with bubonic plague. so you know it’s a quality production) at the Saban Theater on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills on Sunday, August 19th at 7 pm. Tickets are $20, and there’ll be DJs and an afterparty, too. Click here to buy tickets.

And the rest of the festival is pretty impressive, too, from the opening festival of summer camp movies (Wet Hot American Summer, Sleepaway Camp, Little Darlings) at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and a “show and tell” event with Joel Hodgson to a screening of a documentary about G.L.O.W. (the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) with some of the wrestlers on hand live and events with found footage, outsider films, cat films (!), Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab showing off their worst video finds, an evening with Jeff Krulik of Heavy Metal Parking Lot fame, Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption riffing on M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, and a talent show featuring Nick Offerman, Bob Baker’s marionettes, and an acapella quartet performing Philip Glass scores to clips from Koyaanisqatsi. Oh, and the big closer downtown is an Adventures of Pete and Pete reunion with practically the whole cast on hand, and, yes, Polaris is reuniting for this. The whole lineup and ticket links can be found by clicking here.